Goofy Success Story

[Rob Klein]

For Timo: In the original USA version of "The Goofy Success Story, the 
film "Director" was unnamed. The Studio Chief Executive was called "J.B.".
The other characters in the story (other than Mickey and Donald) were 
not "humans" as I recall, but the generic mammals with bulbous black noses.  
They are meant to be dogs, or other "mid-sized mammals", not so?  This was 
typical of the character population in stories drawn by Tony Strobl at that 
time (1956).

Speaking of Tony Strobl, the Duck Album  Nr. 649 story from 1955 which included 
Gladstone's nephew with the curly hair also included two little girl cousins of 
Gladstone. They were unnamed. Although listed as by Strobl, the artwork, 
especially on Daisy and Clara, but also on Gladstone and the others seems to me 
much poorer than Strobl's standard at that time.  Indeed, it is much worse than 
that in the Uncle Scrooge story in the same comic book.  I wonder if these two 
stories had different inkers for his same quality pencil drawing?  I will check 
INDUCKS to see what is listed. But, that may not change my impression, As we 
have found occaisional mistakes in the assignment of artists to individual 
stories during those times (especially when the inkers are different from the 
pencilers).

Rob Klein 


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